If I Was Your Vampire Lyrics

[Verse 1]
6AM, Christmas morning
No shadows, no reflections here
Lying cheek to cheek, in your cold embrace
So soft and so tragic, as a slaughterhouse
You press the knife against your heart

And say that, "I love you so much, you must kill me now"
"I love you so much, you must kill me, now"

[Chorus]
If I was your vampire, certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other until the sun
If I was your vampire, death waits for no one
Hold my hands across your face
Because I think our time has come

[Verse 2]
Digging your smile apart with my spade tongue
And the hole is where the heart is
We built this tomb together, I won't fill it alone
Beyond the pale
Everything's black, no turning back


[Chorus]
If I was your vampire, certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other until the sun
If I was your vampire, death waits for no one
Hold my hands across your face
Because I think our time has come
[Bridge]
Blood-stained sheets
In the shape of your heart
This is where it starts
Blood-stained sheets
In the shape of your heart
This is where it starts, this is where it will end
Here comes the moon again

[Verse 3]
6:19 and I know I'm ready
Drive me off the mountain
You'll burn and I'll eat your ashes
Impossible wheels seducing our corpse

[Chorus]
If I was your vampire, certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other until the sun
If I was your vampire, death waits for no one
Hold my hands across your face
Because I think our time has come

[Bridge]
Beyond the pale
Everything's black, no turning back
Beyond the pale
Everything's black, no turning back

[Outro]
This is where it starts, this is where it will end
Here comes the moon again
Here comes the moon again
This is where it starts, this is where it will end
Here comes the moon again
Here comes the moon again
Here comes the moon again
Here comes the moon again

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6am christmas morning – 6 am reference to when humbert and lolita first had sex in the hotel room, he calls it christmas morning (because he wrote the song on Christmas) but also because its like he woke up to find a “gift for him” except the gift is actually the girl in his bed. “no shadows no reflections here” -> vampires dont have shadows or reflections, so he is calling himself a vampire. Humbert is similar to a vampire because vampires feed on its victims blood for its own needs. while Humbert feeds on Lolita’s innocence for his sexual needs. “So soft and so tragic as a slaughterhouse” refers to Humbert/the vampire describing the event that is occurring at 6 am. “you press the knife against you heart, say that "i love you so much you must kill me now” Some predators are so completely desiring of their victim that they start to believe that the victim wants them back, in Lolita, some might say that lolita never seduced humbert first and it was all in his imagination because he wanted her so badly, if this is a vampire, he feeling like he wants her blood so badly she could beg him to drink her blood and it wouldnt make a difference to him. in his sick twisted fantasy he sees her saying I love you so much you must kill me now, whether kill me means rape me, drink me, eat me is up to how you look at it. another example is in eminem’s “stay wide awake

” in lolita humberts actions actually did SPOILER lead to her death so on that first 6 am morning he effectively started her down the road to her death, but this song is most likely about a vampire tho. “we’ll have eachother until the sun” this refers to how humbert drugged lolita in attempt to put her into a deep sleep so he could get naughty with her while she was sleeping, this however didnt work but when she woke up at 6 am, that’s when they got it on. but orginialy his plan was for them to “have each other until the sun” because when the sun comes up lolita will wake up from her deep sleep. “Digging your smile apart with my spade tounge” a metaphore for their relationship where only he is happy while she is being abused. very cleaver word choices. the hole is where the heart is the hole has a double meaning, the hole in his heart is what he wants her to fill, also the hole could meen the hole in the ground for the tomb, where he wants to be with her, which would also symbolically “fill his hole”, or tripple meaning the hole could refer to her pussy hole which he loves like its her heart.“ "we built this tomb together i wont fill it alone” he claims that they’re relationship was equal and both parties were equally sinfull in their actions, so he wants the consequences to effect both of them and let them both die together similar to how humbert and lolita both died the same year but in different places meaning they had something of a connection but the connection they had was not meant for this world but maybe another. Beyong the pale everythings black no turning back – means that beyond the vampires pale skin he is pure evil and theres nothing that can make him realize what he’s doing is wrong and he shouldnt do it. blood stained sheets in the shape of your heart – could refer to the vampire spilling her blood or humbert making lolita bleed by taking her virginity on the hotel bed. this is where it starts means this is where their relationship starts and this is also the first step to both of their ends. (they both die) “here comes the moon again” refers to how vampires come out at night. “drive me off the mountain you’ll burn and i’ll eat your ashes” - they both die, her because he abused her and him because while he was to busy abusing her she drove him off the mountain symbolically getting rid of him “death waits for no one” he;s saying we all die so might as well do all the things you want to do even if it will lead to an earlier death since in the course of eternity a 1 second life is no different from a 2 second life. “i think our time has come” he thinks the time has come for him to “use” her also he thinks it is their time to die from consequences as well,
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April 16, 2007
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